Author: Gallagher, Thomas (1918-1992),
Title: Paddy's Lament: Ireland 1846-1847 "shocking, powerful" account of the great famine and the Irish diaspora to America.
Description: NY, Harvest/Harcourt, (1987). 1st Harvest. VG lg sz PB. Quite suddenly in 1846 an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the Irish otato crop into inedible slime. It had been the sole source of nutrition for the vast Irish peasantry. Gallagher's father immigrated to the U.S. from Ireland via England, grew up in NY. He was the author of several other books of world history and topics of Irish interest.

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